Abstract A library of 19 chiral tropos phosphorus ligands, based on a free-to-rotate (tropos) biphenol unit and a chiral P-bonded alcohol (11 phosphites, 1-P (O) 2 O to 11-P (O) 2 O) or secondary amine (8 phosphoramidites, 12-P (O) 2 N to 19-P (O) 2 N), were screened, individually and in combinations of two, in the rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of arylboronic acids to enones and enoates. High enantioselectivities (up to 99% ...
[Monti, Chiara; Gennari, Cesare; Piarulli, Umberto; De Vries, Johannes G.; De Vries, Andre H. M.; Lefort, Laurent Chemistry - A European Journal, 2005 , vol. 11, # 22 p. 6701 - 6717]